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PRICK FIVE CENTS VOL XXVIII—NO. m COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: WEDNESDAY M.MININ'C SEPTEMBER iScSfi. HIE UNITED STATES MiAKEN A Severe Earthquake Convulses the Con tinent of America. A Sight of Terror In Many (Ttlen-ColimibuK Pro- pie Frightened Into the Streets by the Trem. tiling of Tlielr Hnuses—Fears for the SufWy of Charleston—Comiounlettkm With That City Cut Off—Inelilents of the Event. Last night at five minutes to nine o’clock Columbus was as quiescent as the hanging gardens of Babylon. Not a loaf rustled. The stars shimmered dimly, and ofTthe streets all was as quiet as the bosom when the spirit has departed. • At five minutes alter nine the streets were resonant with voices and surging citizens. It would be inaccurate to say the multitude that thronged the thoroughfares was good humored. It was awe-struck. But in a few moments the awe melted into sociabil ity if not humor, and to a man in the middle of the street, it appeared that every man was trying to choke his companion into hushing until he could tell his experi ence about something. It was the most communicative hour Columbus has known in a hundred years. Men who never recog nized each other before, fairly hugged in their eagerness to tell something terrible; and while they stopped to chat, they were rubbed, and ruffled,- and buffeted by the sousing, sizzing crowds going up and down Broad street. What was the matter? Enough was the matter. So far ns any man knows to the contrary, for the first time since the morning stars sang together; for the first time in 501,090 years, th re had been an earthquake in Columbus. Forty presidential elections, forty riots, and the ten plagues of Egypt thrown in for good measure might have made Colum bus more restless, but it is improbable. Columbus was very restless last night. We say restless, for this city never gels ex cited like others do. It is too busy making money. Il is hard to excite n man who is doing that. In the midst of all the peri- griuation and puffing and turmoil, Chief of Police J. H. Palmer leaned serenely in the door of the Enquirer-Sun office talking to Professor A. S. Hough, of the commercial school and three of the staff telling him that lie had seen a many a one and it didn’t amount to u row of pins, no how. The crowd were looking for a cool man, but the chief of police suited ’em to6 well. Exactly speaking, the earthquake struck Columbus at four minutes to nine o’clock. For eight or ten minutes more it was impossible to create order out of the chaos that reigned like - king. Everybody was dust-eyed and daft. Business houses emptied their clerks into the street as if they had swallowed ipecac. Among the more important residences, and even far into the back streets, women and children came rushing into the open air as if following some supernatural, guide toward safety. And it is agreed by experts, of whom there are four in Columbus, that if the shock had lasted forty-five seconds longer there would have been six thou sand lives lost. At the same hour in the morning it is estimated that there would have been one-third the number of lives lost. The sh ock lasted, by clock time, forty- six seconds. It is difficult to describe this earthquake, fierce ns it was, and it was the fiercest and most grinding and dangerous ever known In America this side the Pacific slope. The writer of this chatted with five gen tlemen during the entire frightful pendency. But it is improbable that hi- would have done so had it not been that a loud and authorized laugh on one gentle men in the crowd began exactly with the earthquake. When it was two-thirds over, although it had been noticed before, another gentleman in the company called his attention to it, but not consciously, both attributing its disturbance to another cause. Throughout Columbus brick buildings ground and gritted and almost crumbled. There is not an insurance company in America that would have insured Colum bus at the rate of amillion dollars a minute ast night and have felt safe. Not one. This city was never in more danger since its building. Many people were nervous and sleepless up to one and two a. in. Many are so at this writing (3:15 a. m.) The danger in which Columbus stood may be placed in the proportion of the Pacific coast cities in the sixties. Estima ted in accidents, dollars and cents, they were as 89 to 100. Earthquakes were com mon there then, and they were terrors, too. When they came they meant death by hundreds and unmarked graves, fi hat is a past era. If last night’s shakes in Co lumbus are to be considered, the era may be returning. Science can regulate every thing but an earthquake. It binges in the hartds of Him who hangs the universe on his arm and feeds its vast fam ily at His table, who holds the winds in His fist and the waves in the hollow of His hand, who leads captivity captive and who holds the keys of hell and of death. The incidents last night were varied, quick and spicy. A gentleman sat in front of the Central Hotel, smoking his after supper cigar. He was a young, quick and keen-eyed man, with a brown moustache and a goatee. He felt no shock. Sudden ly he saw a man dart out of a saloon a few doors above in his shirt sleeves, and half bent over: after him caine a muscular man with a billiard-cue closely clutched, and in the rear a policeman. The Central hotel guest, who was Mr. O. 8. Shattae, traveling passenger agent of the O. ahd M. railroad, sprang up and said: “They shan’t kill that man while I’m around.” He immediately darted into the crowd in which bummers and policemen Were mixed. But be found the whole shock in Columbus. Last night when the shock came Mt. Herman Lodge F. and A. M. was in ses- erowd running from an enemy which he was felt in all parts of the oity and created falling. There mv. thus far, no reports of could neither sec nor feel Mr j considerable consternation. Several meet- I damage, and it is yet impossible to tell how ?■>«<“ *■"»“>• ti, 1 "? 1 ” *“» I iii? ftrBkV&wautsi : four other men of having failed to feel the members, thinking the buildings were I ’.<•• I’lTiHei's II in. falling, rushing from the halls, Cincinnati, August. 31.—At 0:10 p. in., into the streets. At the Albnugh oltv Mini., u slight shuck ofcarthuiialtu was opera house a large audience Jolt here. Pile printers in the S in office became frightened by the shaking of the started to run down stairs, thinking the Sion. W. C. Coart, A. M. Elledge and Geo. , building and stampeded. The occupants building was Pulling. The shock was quite Waddell were the officers. There was ! ot the galleries, mainly gentlemen, jumped perceptible at the Telephone exchange nml some sort of n revemonv <mW on | to their feet as soon as the shaking began ; other buildings, but it was not noticed some sort ot a ceiemony going on. ; and tU8hed p e n mell down thc 8taJr8 fall- : mu«h by persons in the streets, ahe three gentlemen mentioned were | ing over one another in their efforts to es- : ' -— sitting. They felt the shock first, cape from the building, nml stopped for Glass Knttteil In Knoxville. Soon nil felt, it nnd n ,«,neri,1 ' nothing until they reuclicd the street. The j Knoxville, Tonn.,August 31.—A severe . . . . , .. , “ _ audience in the lower part of the house | shock of earthquake passed over this city i stampede ensued for the door. 1 wo was composed principally of ladies, but they I at &51, r.iUling glas- and driving people men in the crowd were brick masons and ’ were less frightened thaii the galleries and from tlu-ir house'.. A second shock was they said that under another such shock ; * uw left their seats. The performers went felt at 0.03 and a third shook at 9:07, In the - ... on with their pieces and quiet was soon 1 direction of oust to West. they wouldn t give a thrip for any brick ve8tored . No on ‘ e wa8 i n j ure cl. The peo- building. Mr. James Henry, the young and pie in the street did not feel the shock, popular mail clerk, was in the lodge. He and the first knowledge they had of the square and other places, where they c citing great alarm. At Cedar Keys the would be outof danger of falling buildings. I shock was heavy and distinct, the houses Tile negroes were particularly demons!,ra- I and earth trembling violently and moving live and run about the streets ringing j cars on the tracks. At Highland the shock tlu-ir hands and giving vent to threw water from the railway tank, the exclamations of terror. Several chimneys surface being ten inches below the edge, fell, and many buildings suffered other I At McClonny two shocks were felt and the damage of a similar nature. Clocks were I inhabitants were greatly excited. The stopped and lamps and ornaments shaken from tables and mantels. No buildings were demolished. So far as known at 10:30 o’clock no lives were lost or injury to per son reported. Dispatches from the sur rounding towns report an experience simi lar to that of this city. Inleiiie l:vcltcmcnl In IIleliinoikI. Rich MON'U, Va., August 31. A shock of sound wns heard a full minute. At Starke, Oluste nnd Wnldo the shaking was very perccptiblo, with a heavy roaring noise. At Baldwin three shocks were felt in rapid succession. , Fears Aimed ClmrleKtnn. New York, August 31.—Since the earth quake shock there hip been no telegraphic communication with Charleston from any lllihi'l Welt (a lb-ess. ME.Mi'urs, August 31. A violent shock of earthquake was experienced here at 8:53 to-night. It motion was from north to south and lasted fully ten seconds. It had a rapid oscillating movement. Great consicri'ut ion was felt. Many who were within t Loir oillces and residences fled into tlic streets. Numbers who had didn’t look seared to the reporter, but occurrence was obtained from the sight of , , ,, „ , * ’ the (lightened inmates of houses rushing vowed he was. Mr. Henry and Mr. George from them into the streets. A West- Waddell, and Mr, Tom Evans, of Evans & ern Union operator nt Bowie, Howard, cornered an Enquirer-Sun re- I about twenty miles from Washing porter near the lodg^ and told him there ; c °”iked The^walls^hls 6 stuUon 1 'and ... were two shocks, ten minutes apart, and stopped the clock, Professor Simon Nev. -] retired, feeling the sensation, rushed out that the second scared the lodge <®mb, of the Nautical almanac, furnishes , of their dwellings, not waiting to dress as had as the first The the following figures regarding the earth- '’ 1 ' ' " " ’ ’ as had as the Hist. ihe lepoatei quake: The first shock occurred at 9:53.20: led them under a lamp post and lowered the second shock about 9:54.30 and lusted his left eye-lid and asked them iff [ until 0:59. No reports of any serious dam- they took him for that sort of a man. | a S t! in this olty have yet been received. About fifteen or twenty more stepped up ; j.efl ti,,. Theatres, and confirmed the statement, all being out \ Cleveland, O., August 31—9:38 p. m.— of the lodge. They said the stampede for An earthquake shock last ing about one the doors, themselves. The guests at t lie Peabody hotel hurried down stairs, thinking the building was falling. It wns the same all over the city, and many women went into hyst u-i s. It was the severest shock ever experienced in tills section of country. Ten Shocks ut Augusta. Augusta, August 31.—A severe shock of earthquake was felt here at 9:55 p. m., and j part of the country. The telegraph houses were shaken and in some instances ( authorities have been unable to get press severely. Many persons rail into the dispatches or other communications streets, sonic half dressed. The shock was from there. This circumstance generally felt throughout the city. The I occasions great concern. That excitement wits Intense. It is said by many | section of thc country must to have been persons to have been a heavier shock than • the centre of the disturbance. Savannah, tlie one iwhieli occurred here on On., reports that the shook was the sever- the night of December 22, 1875. est eyer felt in that locality. It is known To increase the excitement the that a bridge in the vicinity of Charleston prisoners in the penitentiary, (about800 was thrown from its foundation and the In number, became panto-si ricken and be- j wires all lost, but that is not so serious as gan a great outcry and hammering on the ; the fact that various other points, through which there should be communication with the city, aro unable to get anything from within several miles of the place. mony The: the jail. The shock shook the cans and ment prevails, calicoes off the shelves. The darkeys i , 1( , g;||, lirK Frlaliti inil. thought it was a ghost. ! Detroit, August 31.—At 9 o’clock to- “Some said an owl, night a shock of earthquake caused con sume said nay; ! siderable excitement in this city. It was Home said the devil, i of short duration, but was distinctly felt thev nil run mm ” ! in different parts of town. In the Free „ ~ j, at ' /i • Press building the editorial force made a Soon after the shock Mayor Grimes ( 8talnpede f or the street. uietly inquired of the Enquirer-Sun by Tile Sritre id Montgomery. Montgomery, Ala., August 31.—At 8:1 quietly inquired of the Enquirer-Sun by telephone from his private residence if the papor had felt the shock? His honor re- , Montgomery, Ala., August 31.—At 8:1) . ... ,. . .... p. m. a shock of earthquake was percepti- eeived an affirmative reply. fhe . Ln- , biy felt in this city. Its direction seemed quirer-Sun then called up the private to be east to west. The motion was felt in residence of Hon. L. F. Garrard, to know if , thediest constructed Ijuildlngs of the city he hud felt t he shock He said t hat he had and lasted several seconds. Some houses be lnul telt tbesnocK. n . sam that uc bad. rocked and the people ran out of them, es- It was a tact that at tms moment almost, peeially from the upper floors. The shook at least within two minutes, Philadelphia, was not felt by those on the ground or the Detroit, Chicago, New York, Columbia, ' sidewalks. S. C., Augusta, Savannah. Jacksonville, i ,, ”, ,, , ’ & ’. . < liiittmiiiii-.'ii Exrlteil. Pensacola, and in fact almost the entire Chattanooga, August 31.-A decided continent was .feeling the same shock shock of earthquake was felt here to-night, that was gritting the bricks and tnuting which lasted fully twenty seconds. The the nerves in Cplumbus. For the conclu- j[ t 4 “ swayed Vo** aiuT fro* '” in d 1 1he j shook was not at all violent, and resembled sion that follows this announcement as a windows fairly shook. Considerable excite- the motion of a series of water waves. The are now filled wit h frightened people. The town is wild with excitement. Shocks con tinue. Signal Officer Williams reports ten distinct shocks—at 9:51, 9:52, 0:59, 10, 10:01, 10:17, 10:21. 10:27,10:29,10:31, 10:15, seventy- fifth meridian time. Light ill (Tileiitfo. New York, August 31. No shock was felt at Omaha, Ogden or San Francisco. It was very light at Chicago. Oul in Kentucky. Louisville, August 31.—A decided earthquake shock was felt here at about 9:13 p. m., lasting nearly half a minute. Tlif: vibrations seemed to be north and south. No damage is yet reported. Lexington, Ky., August 31.—A slight shock of earthquake was felt in this city at 9:15 p.m. The vibrations lasted fifteen seconds. gan i «. doors of the cells. Thu guards on duty endeavored to quiet them without effect, whereupon the fire alarm was turned in to arouse the citizens, and soon thereafter a cull for thc military was sounded by thc tire bell. The call was promptly responded to and in a few minutes the soldiers were hastening to the scone. Com pany nfter company reported for duty In rapid succession, one colored company being the first on the ground. While this wns going on the streets leading to the penitentiary were crowded with people excited to an intense degree by thc exaggerated reports that one of tin walls of the penitentiary lnul fallen arid killed n number of inmates, nnd that many of them hud gotten out of their cells and the guards were unable to control them, all of which, however, proved to be unfounded. In a half hour’s time from 8000 to 10,000 poople were In ihe vicinity of the penitentiary. five nt \ilslo ilie. Nashville. Tenn., August 31.—Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt here to-night, the longer one at 8:54J, ami the shorter at 8:571. It was very percepti ble to all in tall buildings, but not felt by a majority of the poople. CHARLESTON’S COMMERCE. A Nluleiiient Nliowlmr 1li« llusiiioh lliiritnt Mu* I’iihI . Charleston, 8. C., August 31.—The Nows and Courier will publish to-morrow an elaborate review of the trade and com merce of Charleston for the year ending - — —, „- to-day. It.shows that in spite of the de- At 11:20 Governor Lee drove out to the presslon of commercial affairs in every scene, but before he arrived everything had . part of the country, and notwithstanding become quiet, the military being on •• ’ • ' ■ ->— duty and the prisoners in their cells. When tlie panic first occurred about, the lower prices of produce, the gross trade of Charlesto: I’ieiures Swinging oil flie Walls. St. Louis, August 31.—A very distinct earthquake shock wus experienced in tills city t his evening at 9 o’clock and lasted for about a quarter of a minute. The sequence, there is no nomenclature but : ment was created in tlie city, this: Old earth is griped in her bowels. We are falling upon times that belong to seers not. scientists. And the man that Nntlihiir Like II lleftii-o. Raleigh, N. C., August 31.—Earthquake shocks were felt here to-night, beginning cau predict tlie outcome is not a priest but at 9:50 and continuing nearly six minutes. I a prophet. Vp to this writing (3:68 a. in.) I Buildings rocked, walls cracked, floors .. . . ... , . , . , ... broke loose Irom their supports, chimneys i 11 w impossible to hear by telegraph from feU and la , ups weve overturned. The | the remote 1 Sflcttima of Wie*vrrjh>f>> But the Vv.hoekfi r W a mLuitjjK. Thv ! Enquirer-St t N has heard from the prill- motion of the earth Was very decided. Cipal points, as rapidly as pos-I XJ) e streets rapidly filled with people. , ;< 1 V .. . 1 „ 1 The screams of frightened persons could ) sible ; and it is safe to say | i )e heard. The negroes were In great fear. 1 that at 9 o’clock last night the con- j Such decided shocks wore never felt here fluent nf AmprioH shook like a handful of before. Reports show that shocks were , _ i , * ot America shook iiko a nanumi or | fel) . a „ ^ t]u , gtote _ M Wi i m i, lg t 0 n three minutes. Many people who had re- , ashes in the shovel of a god , shook until i £liey were very severe and came near \ tired for the night wore so frightened that ! it muddied tlie oceans on either side. Let : wracking several buildings. It issafet-o ] they arose and ran from their houses, people who want to treat last night’s i say that no such excitement was ever : There; were a number of chimneys toppled , , , , ,,. f fi, n f t ,.„i„. known here as this earthquake has caused. 1 over, but at this hour no further damage earthquake lightly, think of that. Leaving shoch , rang c u ur ‘, h | je || H Jt also ’ or deaths are reported. This is tha first •guests occupying the upper floors of tlie Southern and Lindell hotels rushed down stairs, badly frightened, feeling that some catastrophe was about to occur. At tlie Masonic Hall, where a company of Knights Templar were drilling, thc pictures swung inward from the walls. The shock was also felt in the Missouri Republican build ing and at other places throughout the c ! ' No casualties have yet been re- puiWi. " ('ll!TilIIcyN Tu|||iI<hI Out. Charleston, W. Vu.. August 31.—At 9:55 to-night an earthquake shock was felt here. It was very severe, lasting fully is leas than million dollars below the grand to tal of the preceding your. The receipts of cotton for 1885-80 were 505,188 bales, against 512,039 in the previous year. The receipts of rice were 70,017 barrets. In naval stores there was a vory considerable increase, the receipts of turpentine being 82,85-1 barrels, against 4-1,099 last year, alia the receipts of rosin being 273,309, against 248,979 the previous year. During tlie your -149,808 cons of phosphate rock wore mined minutes and the course from onst to west, in thc vicinity of Charleston and Beaufort I and 130,000 tons of commercial fertilizers Three Shark, nt Wilmington. 1 manufactured. There is a handsome in- Wilmington, N. C., August 31.—A so- ' crease in foreign imports at Charleston, vere earthquake shock wns felt here at the total value for 1885-88 being $711,285, 9:50 p.m. Windows rattled, bricks were against $191,890 in 1831-85. Truck farmers shaken from the chimneys and the poople hud by no means a prosperous year. Tlie were greatly alarm'.1. Thu fir . shock, valuciofshipmonts was only $375,000,against which lasted thirty seconds, wus followed $975,000 last year. There was, however, a by two others at intervals or ten minutes, flattering increase In the product of looal fifteen prisoners got out of their cells by breaking tlie insecure bars of tlie transoms over the cell doors, but they were soon secured without much trouble, the guards firing several shots in order to bring them under subjection. Telegrams from Danville, Petersburg, Norfolk and Ashland and other points statu that tho shock was similar in most respects to tlie one felt here. The time of Juration is reported from 30 seconds to 3 The first shock was accompanied by a heavy rumbling noise. The shock was se vere at Smithville and along lie coast. •Im-Wsii:lvllle Gel. .loltisl. Jacksonville, Flu., August 31.—A sc vere earthquake nhoipc v,-(is felt hero nt 8:64 p. m., shaking buildings so that thc people ran into the streuls in alarm. The oscillations wore perfectly regular, lusting more than a minute. They seemed to come from the northwest with a very dis manufacturing rsinblishments. which amounts tv *8,781,000 in 1885-86. against $«,- 191.100 lust v -ar. There are 380 manufac turing c.stu ilishineiits in Charleston,wuicli i ..ploy (»! hands a.id represent a capital or nearly $ 000.000. 'i he wholesale trade is in excellent con dition. Tint tcrmiii i! facilities ot the port arc coustai ! ly inipMvihg. The only serious drawback is the retardation of the work oi i ne national jettits couse juo.icc of the tardiness out tiie poetry of the figure, it ^is n fact ! threw down the plasfering and rang the shock of ail earthquake ever experiei verified by telegraph since tho shook was door bells in the houses. Tlie second in this section. Great excitement e f,.u „i n<i t „rthe nconic iii 1 shock came at 10:01 and lastednbout half a and tlie people of the city are sitting up felt here, and since most ot the people in , Th(j fchjrd shook d)d „ ol C07nu | awaiting another shock and the final rieneed xists ti net rumble. A second slight tremor was | of congres • in providing for its continu- felt at 9:03. No damage is reported. unco and on account of insufficiency of j amounts appropriated. The city in gen eral is in excellent condition. The public debt has been reduced to about four mill ion dollars. Tlie improvement of streets continues regular] v and is of a permanent character. Tlie public health is udmirable. The lust, year death rate in Charleston Columbus went to sleep hist night. ! Iiose until 10:30 ail'd w f as very slight, ft shook suit, are strange times. But let the morrow ; tlie houses very sensibly. The movement : take care of itself. Our readers, if Colum- j of the earth was very perceptible At the i • i mi i nf : first shock houses soon sioquir ,*cl a s’.vin^ bus is still above ground at daylight, w ill 1||g or os(!i i lnti)lg . movement, the n.-adiness . . .. .. - —. ness want to read about tho incidents in nnd 0 f which wan remarkable. In tlie \v around the city. They were gathered from Observer office the shaking was similar far and near until'the cock-crow was that felt in tho press room whuii the . . /. « i engines and presses are running.’' fhcre ushering in the dawn. was a pause ora quarter of a minute in tin On 4th avenue Mr. Albert Dozier, who first shock, when the earth seemed as. i! had retired, tried to open his windows at the phrase c*an bo used, to balance it* il. _ , , , rr , . , - . , . . ' The excitement at this hour f 10:10) is not the first shook. He soon heard his cook, atftU aba | od , Very few persons arc asleep Mary Redding, crying that burglars were j al jd nearly all tlie houses ire deserted. lie finally went to her j Some people will remain out of doo Situ Id in Molillt*. MoiHLK, Ala., August 3L.—At 8:60, Mo bile time, a very slight shock of earth quake was felt in this city. The move ment was from the southwest. it was no ticeable in tho top floors of houses, mak- fftlelicrs swing and g! • a distinct sensation of side to side. One sho liUiTo-i, lasting about two second >pL Kh*vni Sliorks in ('oliimliitt. Columbia. B. C., August 31.—A terrific shock of earthquake swept over this city from tho southwest at 0:48 to-night, shaking buildings fearfully, and since then there have boon ten distinct Rhodes, but none having tho force of the first. The first shock lusted fully three minutes, and it looked as if buildings would be shaken down. Several chimneys were thrown down in different parts of the city, but so far no leasuultics arc reported. The streets were filled with people getting aw.i.v from their shaking houses, and the children s< r» amed in ter ror. The compositors in the Rr gister office had to leave their cases several limes, as the building seemed t danger A large ni- iight, no doubt, through fear. Th weather to-day has been fine. There \va rain at 8 o’clock, hut at the time the shod came the sky was unclouded. U’UMimimN Flidd. Indianapolib, August 31..—An ;arth- BncvHNdHAM, Ala.. Au but distinct shock o 1 here to-night at 8:37 o’d » similar occurrence ciime rounding towns in all people came out of all th streets, instances are r< phono from all over th ■ being shaken on the wa.Ji: robbing the house rescue and found—the earthquake. Mrs. George Waddell, at the Mott residence. had to hold her lamps on the parlor table to keep ’em from falling. ** x The end factory boarding houses oppo- quake shock was distinctly felt Imre about distinctly ugitu.tcd. site the Engle and Phenix mills and the 8:62. A portion of the cornice of the Deni- aas works shook off their plastering likeajson hotel was displaced, falling to the h , 4 . pavement, and the tower of the court shedding in summer, and emptied then house rocked to such an extent that the frightened boarders into the streets. Bricks fire watchman on duty fled down thc fell from the top of the Empire mills like , stairs. rain. It began to look like the last day in I wornnL^m.Ihlm. ■ust 31.—A iquake wa ;k. Kepor from tht : hote ported •ns. The s to the by tele- pictures ande tiers m imminent >1 the shocks, us being held f adjourned • court house . The badly :d people assembled in the str.oot i. praying. At, this hour (10:60) the people are congregated on the streets and in the yurds, fearing a recurrence of tlic earthquake. din a direct line ditical meeting v. >u. ,, t house, but i . The walls of t in •U- i in one porlioi P|» PiTTSBurao. August 31.- -At 10 o’clock to night an earthquake shock was felt in all parts of this city and Alleghany. Thc shock lasted about thirty seconds and cre ated the greatest consternation in thc hotels and large buildings. In Hotel An- Krom fin* M iCOS, Ot, Au Telegrupli from !• man. Muwkinsvill port that the eart Ceiling plaster was >i)if among thc white people was only 17 per 1000. Among the colored people the mew- lality. of course, is much higher. Reduced to money values, the total mount of trade and commerce of Charles- ■ /U was .*08,048.622, against ffi7,H6 f ) ; 068 for be previous year. The News and Courier also publishes :efcelms of i lie trade of tlie cities • Columbia, Greenville and rtpar- ; in burg for the past year, mowing a satisfactory condition and en- oiiraging progress. It puiilishes also au itimate by tin* state, agricultural depart ment of tin* prospects of the crops of South Carolina, making the cotton crop 17,162 bah s !• ss 1 ban last year; the corn crop 3,- i8,73f> bushels less, wheat 4(5,‘M8 less; oats )1 MV1 more; rice about thc. same as last, ml the tobacco area S27 acres against 183 in 1880. _ SEDGWICK S DENIAL. is! >1. Specials to tlic i Valley, Gordon, East- and Forsyth, Cla., re- i'Utko was felt at 8:65. deed and articles on lie s.ijs flit* Itn WhmiI Him nre False. the evening- not Saint Patrick’s day in tlie Meadville, Pa., August 31.—At 10 p. in. derson and Hotel Duquesne the KuesU ran morning. ; an earthquake shock was felt, followed into the streets panic-stricken, and in thc While the shock was going on Mr. Har- Immediately by a slight shock, the whole upper stories of the Western Union tele- ,,, ,, Hie Western Union lasting about twenty seconds. The streets graph building tie: swaying of the structure ry Abbott, opeiator in the Western union ^ vere at once HH ed with people. The was quite perceptible. Do Witt C. Byllshy, office, was seiiding.dispatches to Augusta, guests rushed out of the hotels in their j of Media, Pa., a guest at the Hotel Du- They had six shocks there, and every nightclothes. Women and children were i quesne, was sitting in a room of the fifth time Mr Abbott would get started the <' 1 '.vjng and screaming and every one more unic 1U1. II !-. ..... : or less alarmed. As far as learned no Augusta operator would say : 'Hold on, damage bos been done, this d—n building is going to fall,” and would rpn out. He did this six times while Mr. Abbott sat in the creaking Georgia Home building nnd laughed. mantles were overturned in each place. Thc negroes were all panic-stricken. No damugc has yet been reported. Tint Giiioi.inn In Atlnnta. Atlanta, August 31.—This city was thrown into a state of the wildest excite ment tonight by three distinct shocks of earthquake ut 9 o’clock. They were ac companied by u rumbling noise, and fol Washington, August 31.—Secretary of State Bayard received this afternoon a telegram from A. G. Sedgwick, who was recently sent on a special mission to Mexico, stating that thc stories circulated about him were ridiculously false and that proof to that effect would be produced whenever he was called upon by the sec retary of state therefor. City of Mexico, August 31.— Sedg wick, special American envoy, hud another lonsultution with Minister Jackson yester- flfth story with his son and daughter. He says the rocking of the building made him sick at tbcstomach. Looking out of the window he plainly aw tlie city hall, an immense Kncklnv IIuIMIiiks In Scliiu. stone structure just opposite, tremble and Selma, Ala., August 31.—A distinct shake back anil forth. On the south shock of earthquake was felt here to-night side tlie shock seems to have at 9 o’clock. Buildings of more than one The most peculiar and amusing incident story rocked back and forth and the in- vet known happened in the editorial mates rushed wildly in the streets. No • v „ c!.... ...i actual damage was done. rooms of tlie Enqi irer-Si n. I line gentlemen besides the staff' were in the editorial room. Suddenly the building began to shake. But the conversation Him from Their IIimIk. Lynchburg, Va., August 31.—A very been more severe; dishes wore thrown from the shelves,clocks stopped and the occupants of houses rushed out, scream ing with terror. On South 19th street the Lotusiun club, which was holding a meet ing, quickly adjourned, and thc members, who wore greatly frightened, lost no lion pronounced shock of earthquake was felt 1 in leaving the building. The surrounding ranldwas kent. ui) with here at II) o’clock p. m. Houses swayed, towns in all directions report a distinct unabated avidity. The rix gentlemen in wme_ shake n fro m thee hi mneys vibration of the earth same lowed one another in quiek succession. At 1 ^ <:r purpose of procuring data for the first shock the people, but few of ! his report to Secretary Bayard on the Cut- whom had retired, were frightened, but I ting case. At the American legation noth- did not know to what to attribute their I »*id regarding the rumors in circula- strange sensation, but in almost every in- tiou concerning Sedgwick. Minister Jack- stance thought itwascaused by something ' son has taken no part in the matter. running over their houses. Before they • • had time to consider the matter a second I % fJr«*«*n Glass Hottlcs. and much more severe shock was felt, j Pittsburo, August 31.—There will he a windows being rattled, and bric-a-brac and general resumption of the green glass hot- ornaments falling from their positions. | tie factories of the west to-morrow. The From every part of the city the people ; resumption will be quite a victory for tlie rushed wildly from their houses into the I home glass blowers. They made a fight streets. Several lodges and public meet- j to have the brewery companies use home- ings were in session, ahd those present made bottles instead of importing theni r rushed pell mell into the streets. Many of and now that they have succeeded in their the sections of tlie fin? department plunged demand, they predict a very brisk trade, reg'dia. The scene at the negro | Tha factories have been closet oiV'nnmri-it Ht"tiVe’June'error at and a great many people ran from their hour. As far as hea once—that the shook was caused by a noise Metis into the streets. The shock lasted serious damage. fully one minute. Only one shock was distinguished. A heavy rumbling noise once , , of persons overhead. At lasttheheav.v editor, Mr. G.,said to the telegraph editor : !i Air. II., we have stood this long enough. : accompanied the shook. Put your head out of that window . : bch in'd you and tell ’em to quit that fool- ishness.’ The latter put his head out of Macon, August 31.—At 9 o’clock to-night Macon was perceptibly shaken by an earthquake. There were two shocks,’ l;ist- losed for the usual two months’ summer vacation. KilEril mt (lie Trestle. Sauk Centre, Minn., August 31.—Three young ladies were crossing a trestle work Charlotte, N. C., Adjust 31.—A severe ing in all about th minutes. They the window, looked ud toward the stars shock of earthquake was felt here at 10:15 stampeded . and said in a • commanding voice: “Quit p. in. Several chimneys were demolished, of houses and gathering in frightened stampeded thc town, people running out of houses and gatbe knots in the open air. that foolishness.” The earthquake shock and tho greatest excitement, prevail! ceased at that'instant. If the telegraph 1 Crowds fathered in the streets, and f , , editor had known who he was talking to Half an hour there was much confusion Foiisidcmhly hvrHert. he would have spoken in a more respect- and fear on the part of the public. Three Norfolk, Va., August 31. — A well ful tone. shocks were felt, the first being the most marked earthquake shock occurred here severe. # at 9:54. Another, but less severe, occurred TheKxtenl of flic* Shark. ' f Washington, August 31.—At 9:55 to- I In* Shock hi New \ork. night a very decided vibration of the earth ' ^ New York^ August 31.--A very jjercepti (l iicn i'miv. xiu”unioi. -a y u t was felt in Washington, and in a few min- ’ ble earthquake shock, lasting about ten utes advices began to arrive that the dis- seconds, was experienced here at 9:57 thi: at 10:17 p. m. No damage has resulted from the shock, but considerable excite ment is manifested. turbanee covered almost the entire coun try. As yet no reports have been received ' ' arth of New York, nor west of from north Chicago, but all the country south and west of those points was affected. Two shocks occurred. The second shock wa- of longer duration and more severe startling. Persons while walking ex- than '.be first and a lew seconds later. It ented a itiszj ft-, ling, with a sensation ti evening, it was felt in thc operating roon of the western Union building, where the switch-board was swayed for a second or so, and in the Associated Press room, in the higher story of the Western Union building, the undulations were l iu- sin,, !,. Savannah. Augi ' '.ook t--night thi ■ y severe shock . i a . followed at into ninutes by four o'I -■ er.v part'of the I; — About rthquakc, ' lerritie intc fhe people in thoroughly the streets rushed trora their houses down in full regal in. I ne scene at the negr ’ churches was one of utmost confusion. Negroes fell upon their knees and began I to pray, declaring that judgment day was at hand. It is reported ti.nl several la'dies I fainted and .sick persons were hurriedly | „ _______ ,, ! taken from their beds. The chimneys of near here yesterday afternoon when the 1 several buildings smashed through, and in ] Manitoba east-bound train came along, several instances with considerable dam- They lost their presence of mind, became age. .Specials to the Constitution from all 1 perfectly frantic and started back, but the parts of Georgia show that the shock was : engine was too close to lie reversed. Miss general in the state and south, hut no Allen, 18 years old, was instantly killed and serious damage is reported. Tlie people, 1 horribly mangled, and Miss Flaveu was however, have never been so generally severely injured. The latter’s sister escaped frightened. After the first shock a perfect unhurt by jumping into the water, but is stampede occurred among ttie printers of prostrated by the nerveous shock. the Constitution office, all rushing to tho T street from the top of a six-story building (time Through, and were with difficulty persuaded to re- Boston, August 31.—Nichols & Farus- turn to work. I o arul to tht* confusion the worth, dealers in shoe manufacturers’ electric li)<uts in he building went out on j goods, at No. 98 Sumner .street, have sus- aecoiuu oi Hie engineer sudden.y stopping pended. The firm has carried on business ; • lc . H.’iLkn.G the shaking was this city for many.veal’s .and ranked ' , n *■“’ #t:| ' nfcr vvr, ’ n ^ about his raa- with the leadincr houses in its trade. The !ltv • cause of the failure is said to be the outside t «».r rations of,Farnsworth, for whom it is “aid th. - firm was dissolved yesterday by tlie withdrawal of Farnsworth, who hits filed a voluntary petition in insolvency on his individual account. The liabilities art heavy, but up estimate of them is given, Jac-tsoiville August 81.—The Times V ’lien’s (• i s' .'r un tlie interior of tli .o de repor'. t !»at earthquake shocks wer sought the open 1 generally felt at about the same mo mein